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Drupal 8's Modal API

Mar 9, 2016 drupal, drupal 8, ctools, modals, dialogs

Using Drupal 7, the contributed module CTools provided the ability to implement dialogs, even with a fallback when JavaScript was not enabled, allowing a graceful degradation. The very popular Views module relied heavily on CTools for dialogs, but even though Views is in Drupal 8 core now, CTools is not. At least, a lot of the ideas and concepts of CTools did made it into core though.
Deploying Drupal using Capistrano

Dec 31, 2015 drupal, capistrano, deploying, talk

Deploying Drupal websites can be a hassle when you have multiple environments to maintain. Therefore it’s a good idea to automate your deployment process. Sit down, lay back, relax! Meet Capistrano, a remote server automation and deployment tool written in Ruby.